"The day after the election, my Airbnb host—I'm a digital nomad living near Munich in West Germany—showed me the map below and joked, 'Rebuild the wall, two meters higher this time.' This sarcastic comment underscores the deep-seated feelings some West Germans have towards the continuing divide between East and West after the fall of the Berlin Wall."
"As Erik Lehmann, an economics professor at the University of Augsburg, explains, East Germany struggled to transition from a planned economy to a market economy. Many highly educated workers moved to West Germany for a better life, while noncompetitive companies were liquidated, and entire industries disappeared. By 1991, about half of all East German manufacturing jobs were lost and unemployment ballooned to 24 percent."
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